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Council hears accounts of StarTran crash and driver safety concerns after storm; calls for clearer authority to suspend service
Summary
City council public-comment speakers described a StarTran bus crash during the March 19 windstorm and urged the city to give operations managers authority to suspend service when weather conditions make routes unsafe.
Several public-comment speakers at the Lincoln City Council’s April 28 meeting urged city leaders to address StarTran safety procedures after a March 19 windstorm during which drivers were ordered to operate in hazardous conditions.
Rhetoric in the public comments focused on the March 19 event, when council speakers said wind gusts and low visibility left interstate and arterial routes hazardous. According to testimony, state patrol closed sections of the interstate early that morning and large commercial vehicles later blocked lanes; speakers said StarTran supervisors nonetheless directed buses…
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